Troubleshooting

Printing difficulties (continued)

Difficulties

Suggestions

The machine is not printing or has

Press Job Cancel.

stopped printing.

As the machine cancels the job and clears it from the memory it may produce an

 

 

incomplete printout.

 

 

Scanning difficulties

Difficulties

Suggestions

TWAIN errors appear while

Make sure that the Brother TWAIN driver is chosen as the primary source. In

scanning.

PaperPort™ 12SE, click File, Scan or Get Photo and choose the Brother TWAIN

 

driver.

 

 

OCR does not work.

Try increasing the scanning resolution.

 

(Macintosh users)

 

Presto! PageManager must be downloaded and installed before use. See

 

Accessing Brother Support (Macintosh) on page 5 for further instructions.

 

 

Network scanning does not work.

See Network difficulties (Network models only) on page 106.

 

 

Cannot scan.

(For MFC-7860DW)

 

Contact your administrator to check your Secure Function Lock Settings.

 

 

Software difficulties

Difficulties

Suggestions

Cannot install software or print.

(Windows® only)

 

Run the Repair MFL-Pro Suite program on the installation CD-ROM. This

 

program will repair and reinstall the software.

Cannot perform ‘2 in 1’ or ‘4 in 1’

Check that the paper size setting in the application and in the printer driver are the

printing.

same.

 

 

The machine does not print from

Try to reduce the print resolution. (See Basic tab in the Software User’s Guide.)

Adobe® Illustrator®.

 

Paper handling difficulties

 

 

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Difficulties

Suggestions

The machine does not feed paper.

If there is no paper, load a new stack of paper into the paper tray.

 

The LCD shows No Paper or a

If there is paper in the paper tray, make sure it is straight. If the paper is curled,

 

Paper Jam message.

you should straighten it. Sometimes it is helpful to remove the paper, turn the

 

 

stack over and put it back into the paper tray.

 

 

Reduce the amount of paper in the paper tray, and then try again.

 

 

Make sure that manual feed mode is not chosen in the printer driver.

 

 

Clean the paper pick-up roller. See Routine maintenance on page 60.

 

 

If the LCD shows the Paper Jam message and you still have a problem, see

 

 

Error and maintenance messages on page 81.

 

 

 

 

How do I print on envelopes?

You can load envelopes from the manual feed slot. Your application must be set

 

 

up to print the envelope size you are using. This is usually done in the Page Setup

 

 

or Document Setup menu of your application.

 

 

 

 

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